Working Thoughts
Closing Last Night - Midday Shift today
The new gig goes and I’m looking at it as an opportunity to serve - an opportunity to build positive relationships with the community and all those visitors who might happen upon Daily Provisions. It’s much more physically demanding than I thought, though! Keep that in mind the next time you are in a restaurant or retail outlet where the folks helping you are on their feet moving for seven or eight hours with a half-hour break at best.
Today is a light day; five hours from 10 AM to 3 PM. Yesterday was 3 PM to about 10:30 PM and wrapped with pushing the wet mop around. Pain in the body made it difficult to sleep, particularly in the top of the right foot.
Harrowings continues. “The Passing Show” is being recorded to add to the body of work in which I’m engaged with a long view. We should all be thinking of our impacts beyond the immediate “tricky day” we might be experiencing. Everything matters:Music
Music provides my sustenance as I move from dawn to dusk and back again. I’m grateful for this temp job that is called life. I stay in that mode. I can be grateful for the pain which has information in it about what I need to work on and forms a wonderful reminder that I am alive. It was said by Upasni Maharaj that one should cheerfully bear one’s pain and not mind it. If one bears one’s pain with pleasure, one will have a lot of pleasure! This is a thought that I shared with my father as his physical decline continued until he passed away at the age of 91.
I hope that this monument that I am creating through Harrowings does them justice.
Meanwhile, I just need to keep on turning with the planet spinning around the sun:
This must be heaven, after all!
I may not know what I’m going for, but I’m going to go for it. That’s for sure.
Onward!
Click a button. Any button….
I have not worked in the restaurant industry yet, my grandmother did in hills too I remeber, not super high but mid size, still, She retired early her back gave out. I remember her feet always being tired. Thank you for what you do for others.
There’s something grounding in recognizing that ordinary work and physical strain are part of the shared human experience, not just personal inconvenience.